Just a hint for those waiting for years...

[RalphD]

It may help to translate your site into another language and submit it to that language category. The Spanish version of my website got listed within 2 months time, while the English version is still pending review (I hope) after almost a year.

By the way, I do think that 4 months of inactivity before removing an editor is FAR too much. Make it 1 month! If I am right it may take years before a site is listed... and that's a pity because there are fantastic new sites out there with better products, new developments, revolutional invents... only a few of them listed at dmoz.

[old_crone]

By the way, I do think that 4 months of inactivity before removing an editor is FAR too much.

You're assuming that only the named editor for any particular category is the only one who can edit there. That simply isn't true and more than one editor can be named for any category and that doesn't include all the editors higher up the category tree who can edit any sub-category below them, nor the metas and editalls who can edit everywhere they choose. The named editor could stay there forever without doing anything or removed in one month and it would not change a thing either way.

[hutcheson]

Ralph, in our experience four months is too little. We have a stream of editors -- good editors, sometimes one-time very active editors! -- who are inactive, for reasons of their own, for longer than that, and who wish to return: the directory is better off with them than without them.

 

Think of editor expiration less like Mafia retirement of the editor, and more like a standard security measure for the ODP server (that is, not leaving unattended userids active.)

 

And don't think of how many more edits that editor COULD have done if you'd chained him to the keyboard and flogged him daily. Because you can't do that. Think of how many less current edits the ODP would have without that editor. Think of the downside of cutting off all potential. And you too would be thinking of ways to keep editors, not excuses to cut them.

[RalphD]

Thank you both for the clarifications. Please don't take my suggestion as a complaint!

[bobrat]

Always remember that there are hundreds of other editors that can edit any category and cany categroy can be edited by any editor futher up the tree. The fact that there is a named editor in a category does not stop any of them from reviewing sites there.

 

In one category I edit, if I leave a new submission unattented for more than a day, I know that there that someone above me will jump in and take care of it.

 

In all categories where I am "the nominal editor", other editors that have access will jump in whenever they feel like it. They might just happen to be doing quality control and fixing up a site gone dead, or they just happen to find a site of interest in the category.